Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "New Report: Democrats Must Move Left To Win" video.
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To answer the question, it comes from the fact that a lot of the early voting states where Bernie did poorly, due to not having any name recognition by that time, had large black populations.
There's also the fact that at the beginning of the primary, Hillary was coasting on some manufactured illustration that the Clintons were good to black people and some twisting of some things Bernie said.
Given time, however, Bernie showed he was willing to respectfully listen (even when he could have been excused if he didn't), his history of marching with MLK became public knowledge, people came to understand what he was saying better, and Hillary's "superpreditors" quote came to light and she showed complete disdain for those that challenged her on it (in complete contrast to how Bernie handled black people that challenged him on racial issues).
After that, one after another, black community leaders came out in support of Bernie, but many of the votes had already been cast, and the great spin machine took that and went to work.
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We really need to stop calling them centrists at all and bring up by any definition outside of the current climate in DC, that Bernie is what centrism looks like.
His platform is supported by most of the population, is considered moderate by most of the developed world, and is in the middle of nearly every spectrum of political thought.
On ecnomics, he's about halfway between free market capitalism, and pure communism (both of which fail spectacularly).
On war, he's neither a total pacifist, nor a hawk/imperialist.
On civil rights, again, moderate as he doesn't support special rights/restrictions for any group.
On scope of government, he neither wants an important nor tyrannical one.
Etc.
Bernie is what a real centrist looks like without the filter of the Overton window redefining the political spectrum.
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